Quotes About Ingenuity

The best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.

Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.

People have often told us that what we wanted to do couldn't be done. Our success is due, in part, to not just an ability but a willingness to look at things differently. I believe opportunity is part instinct and part immersion—in an industry, a subject, or an area of expertise. Dell is proof that people can learn to recognize and take advantage of opportunities that others are convinced don't exist.

Our lean beginnings created the strategic management principles that define our culture: Less is more. Information is better than inventory. Ingenuity is better than investment. Execution is everything. No excuses.

More prized by his parents than good grades, Chris mentioned, was "Yankee ingenuity"—putting your smarts to work. "It's better to be tough than strong, better to be clever than intelligent," he said, repeating a family maxim.

First, you had to get a badger drunk on wine filtered through camphor and blended with a compound of gold, seed pearls, and coral.

Glass spotted another dog by the creek, and this one he did not spare. Soon he had a fire burning in the center of the hut. Part of the dog he roasted on a spit over the fire and part he boiled in the kettle. He threw corn into the pot with the dog meat and continued his search through the village.

When we find ourselves up against practical obstacles that can't be overcome, we must go forward. You either make the film as you can or don't make it at all.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Anyone who follows others never passes them by, and anyone who does not know how to do good works on his own cannot make good use of works by others.

Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.

Because for better or for worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity.

Flight and guidance systems are theoretically foolproof these days, but fools are surprisingly ingenious.

Comedy, like composting, involves smart recycling.

Work hard AND smart.

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

It's my job to know what others don't. How did you know to make kimchi and sell it on a street corner to earn money? You knew because you wanted to live. I want to live, too, and if I want to live, I have to know things others don't. Now, I'm telling you something valuable.

If you don't see a clear path for what you want, sometimes you have to make it yourself.

If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.

Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LAVA, MAKE LAVA JUICE

The evolution of ingenuity is stagnating from the technogenic devaluation of labor.

The evolutionary, gene transformation of the chimera of thinking, due to the gene of ingenuity and egoism, expands, as it were, the universe of dissociation. Anthropomorphic worldview of multiculturalism and hydras of science and pop culture that raise mestizos of globalism of various mentalities.